Title 9, Title 9: Elections

Sec. 9-390a. Election of town committee members in 1972. Section 9-390a is repealed. (1972, P.A. 3, S. 1; 220, S. 4; P.A. 78-153, S. 31, 32.)

Sec. 9-391. Time for party endorsements for municipal offices and town committee members. Time for selection of delegates to conventions. Certification. Late certification void. (a) Each endorsement of a candidate to run in a primary for the nomination of candidates for municipal…

Sec. 9-392. Selection of town committees. A town committee shall be selected by each party in each town, in accordance with the provisions of sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, not later than July 1, 1956, and thereafter at intervals not greater than twenty-six months. The terms…

Sec. 9-393. Selection of town committee members and delegates. All town committee members and delegates to conventions shall be chosen as provided in sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive. Vacancies in town committees, arising from any cause including failure to elect, shall be fill…

Sec. 9-394. District delegates. If the state rules of a party provide that certain delegates to state conventions be chosen from senatorial districts, the party-endorsed candidates for election as such district delegates shall be selected in such manner as is prescribed in such r…

Sec. 9-394a. Senatorial and assembly district convention delegates. Any major party in any part of a town which is a component part of a senatorial or assembly district composed of parts of two towns or of a town or towns and a part or parts of another town or other towns may sel…

Sec. 9-395. Publication of information concerning municipal primaries. (a) Forthwith upon the certification provided in section 9-391, the clerk of the municipality shall publish, in a newspaper having a general circulation in such municipality, the fact of such certification and…

Sec. 9-396. Ballot vote at caucus; eligibility to vote. At any caucus of the enrolled members of any party in any municipality or in any voting district of any municipality, the chairman of such caucus shall, upon the receipt of a written motion from any person lawfully participa…

Sec. 9-397. Tie vote on endorsement. If a vote taken under sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, on the selection of any party-endorsed candidate for municipal office or for delegate or town committee member results in a tie, such tie vote shall be dissolved in the manner prescribe…

Secs. 9-398 and 9-399. Dispute as to endorsement. Time for filing candidacies. Sections 9-398 and 9-399 are repealed. (June, 1955, S. 576d; November, 1955, S. N48, N64; 1957, P.A. 518, S. 3, 11; 1958 Rev., S. 9-77, 9-91; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 26, 27; P.A. 74-25, S. 5, 13; P.A. 79-616…

Sec. 9-400. Time for filing of candidacies for state or district office. Certification. Late certification void. (a) A candidacy for nomination by a political party to a state office may be filed by or on behalf of any person whose name appears upon the last-completed enrollment …

Secs. 9-401 to 9-404. Availability of petition forms. Petition form; circulation of petitions for state or district office; prohibited acts. Registrar's receipt and verification of petitions for state or district office; rejection by Secretary of the State, when; preservation of …

Sec. 9-404a. Availability and issuance of primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to state or district office. Petition forms for candidacies for nomination by a political party to a state office, as defined in section 9-372, or the district office of representative…

Sec. 9-404b. Primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to state or district office. Signatures. Circulation. (a) The petition form for candidacies for nomination to state or district office shall be prescribed and provided by the Secretary of the State, and signatures…

Sec. 9-404c. Registrar's receipt and verification of petitions for candidacies for nomination to state or district office. Filing with Secretary. Tabulation. (a) Upon the receipt of any page of a petition proposing a candidacy for a state or district office, the registrar shall f…

Sec. 9-405. Time for filing primary petition candidacies for municipal offices and town committee members. (a)(1) Candidacies of persons other than party-endorsed candidates for nomination by a political party to a municipal office to be voted upon at a municipal election, or for…

Sec. 9-406. Filing of primary petition candidacies for municipal offices and town committee members. A candidacy for nomination by a political party to a municipal office or a candidacy for election as a member of a town committee may be filed by or on behalf of any person whose …

Sec. 9-406a. Penalty for fraudulent certification. Any person who fraudulently signs, attests or files a false certificate under section 9-388, 9-391, 9-400 or 9-406 shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor. (P.A. 81-447, S. 3, 23.)

Secs. 9-407 and 9-408. Filing of candidacies; delegates. Filing of primary petition candidacies for district delegates. Sections 9-407 and 9-408 are repealed, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date. (June, 1955, S. 590d; No…

Sec. 9-409. Availability and issuance of primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or election as town committee members. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, petition forms for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or…

Sec. 9-410. Primary petition forms for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or election as town committee members. Signatures. Circulation. (a) The petition form for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or for election as members of town committees shall be pr…

Sec. 9-411. Number of candidates required on petition for town committee members. Any provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, no primary petition for town committee members shall be approved unless it contains the names of a number of candidates, other than party-endors…

Sec. 9-412. Registrar's receipt and verification of petitions for candidacies for nomination to municipal office or election as town committee members. Filing with clerk. Upon the receipt of any page of a petition proposing a candidacy for a municipal office or for member of a to…

Sec. 9-413. Deposition of deposit filed with registrar. Section 9-413 is repealed. (June, 1955, S. 595d; November, 1955, S. N78; 1957, P.A. 518, S. 25; 1958 Rev., S. 9-106; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 40; 1972, P.A. 57, S. 1; P.A. 79-616, S. 23.)

Sec. 9-413a. Registrar to certify accuracy of enrollment list provided to candidate circulating primary petition. A registrar of voters who provides an enrollment list of a political party in a municipality, political subdivision or district to a candidate who will be circulating…

Sec. 9-414. Nominations not to exceed places to be filled; municipal primaries. No town committee, caucus or convention shall endorse and certify to the clerk of a municipality, and no primary shall choose, more candidates for nomination to municipal office or more persons as mem…

Sec. 9-415. When primary required. (a) If a candidacy for nomination by a political party to a state office is filed by or on behalf of any person other than a party-endorsed candidate within the time specified in subsection (a) of section 9-400 and in conformity with the provisi…

Sec. 9-416. No-contest nominations; state or district office. If (1) at a state or district convention no person other than a party-endorsed candidate has received at least fifteen per cent of the votes of the delegates present and voting on any roll-call vote taken on the endors…

Sec. 9-416a. Failure of party to endorse; state or district office. If a party has made no endorsement of a candidate for a particular state or district office, and if within the time specified in section 9-400, a candidacy for such party's nomination to such office is filed in c…

Sec. 9-417. No-contest nominations; municipal office and town committee members. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, if within the time specified in section 9-405, no candidacy for nomination by a political party to a municipal office has been filed by or on…

Sec. 9-418. Failure of party to endorse; municipal office. (a) If within the time specified in section 9-391, a party has failed, with respect to the office of state senator or state representative, to certify to the Secretary of the State, or with respect to any other municipal …

Sec. 9-419. Failure of party to endorse; town committee members. If within the time specified in section 9-391, a party has failed, with respect to the election of town committee members, to certify to the clerk of the municipality names of persons as party-endorsed candidates eq…

Sec. 9-420. Persons selected as convention delegates by party deemed lawfully selected. The persons selected by a political party to serve as delegates to a convention shall be deemed to have been lawfully selected as such delegates or district delegates. (November, 1955, S. N69;…

Sec. 9-421. When primary not to be held for town committee members. Any provision of sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, to the contrary notwithstanding, no primary shall be held by a party for the election of a member of a town committee unless candidacies for such election numb…

Sec. 9-422. Primaries for justices of the peace. Any provision of sections 9-382 to 9-450, inclusive, to the contrary notwithstanding, no primary shall be held for nomination by a party to the office of justice of the peace unless candidacies for such nomination numbering at leas…

Sec. 9-423. Time for primaries; state, district or municipal office. (a) The primaries of all parties for nomination to an office to be voted upon at a state election shall be held on the second Tuesday in August in the year in which such state election is held. (b) The primaries…

Sec. 9-424. Time for primaries; delegates. Section 9-424 is repealed, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or after that date. (June, 1955, S. 577d; November, 1955, S. N50; 1958 Rev., S. 9-79; 1961, P.A. 72, S. 1; 1963, P.A. 17, S. 51; 52, …

Sec. 9-425. Time for primaries; town committees. The day for holding a primary for the election of town committee members shall be the first Tuesday in March in even-numbered years. (June, 1955, S. 577d; November, 1955, S. N51; 1958 Rev., S. 9-80; 1961, P.A. 72, S. 2; 1963, P.A. …

Sec. 9-426. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee due to vacancies in non-party-endorsed candidacies. Slate vacancies. (a) If only one candidacy has been filed by a person other than a party-endorsed candidate for the nomination by a political party to a particular…

Sec. 9-427. Cancellation of delegate primary due to vacancies in party-endorsed candidacies; filling of vacancies when incomplete party-endorsed slate wins delegate primary. Section 9-427 is repealed, effective January 1, 2004, and applicable to primaries and elections held on or…

Sec. 9-428. Vacancy in party-endorsed candidacy. (a) If a party-endorsed candidate for election to the position of town committee member, prior to twenty-four hours before the opening of the polls at the primary, dies or, prior to ten days before the day of such primary, withdraw…

Sec. 9-429. Cancellation of primary for office or town committee when vacancies in candidacies result in no contest. (a) If, prior to the opening of the polls at a primary for election of town committee members, such a number of candidates have died, withdrawn their names or beco…

Sec. 9-430. Withdrawal procedure. No candidate shall be deemed to have withdrawn under the provisions of section 9-426, 9-428 or 9-429 until a letter of withdrawal signed by such candidate is filed with the municipal clerk in the case of municipal office or town committee member,…

Sec. 9-431. Eligibility to vote at primary. (a) No person shall be permitted to vote at a primary of a party unless (1) he is on the last-completed enrollment list of such party in the municipality or voting district, as the case may be, or (2) if authorized by the state rules of…

Sec. 9-431a. Eligibility to vote at caucus, primary or town convention. A person whose name does not appear on the registry list of any town or district shall not be eligible to vote in any caucus, primary or town convention within such town. (1967, P.A. 533, S. 3.)

Sec. 9-431b. Eligibility to vote on removal from one town in state or district to another. Section 9-431b is repealed. (1971, P.A. 756, S. 1, 2; P.A. 73-630, S. 18, 19.)